Sheikh Mansur (al-Qaeda)

Sheikh Mansur (1970-16 June 2006), born Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif al-Mashadani, was the religious emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraq War.

Biography
Sheikh Mansur was born in 1970, and he received religious training in Jordan in the 1990s. He was captured in Iraq in July 2004 while working with Ansar al-Sunnah and Ansar al-Islam, and he was released the next fall and joined al-Qaeda in Iraq, becoming its religious emir. On 16 June 2006, he was killed in Yusifiyah while attempting to flee from coalition forces.